The seminar by Xavier de Pedro Puente discusses the analysis of big data using R's Tidyverse and Spark, focusing on applications within public statistics at the Barcelona City Council. It covers modern R techniques, the integration of Spark for large dataset processing, and the city's initiatives in open-source data management. The presentation also explores the evolution of data technologies and introduces tools such as Apache Arrow and disk.frame for handling medium-sized data projects.

1. BigdatawithModernR&Sparkin
PublicStatistics
"SEMINAR: Análisis de Big data con Tidyverse y Spark: uso en estadística pública"
By Xavier de Pedro Puente, Ph.D.
Technician at the Municipal Data Office. Barcelona City Council.
Monday September 14, 2020. 16h-17:30h + questions
Within the context of the postgraduate course on
"Data Science. Applications to Biology and Medicine with Python and R"
at University of Barcelona. 2020.
IImage from https://blog.rstudio.com/2019/03/15/sparklyr-1-0/
[1]

2. Outline
About me1.
Barcelona City Council Çase2.
Modern R: Tidyverse3.
Modern R & Big Data4.
Spark (Apache) & Sparklyr (RStudio)5.
Alternative approach6.

3. ==(1)Aboutme==
Xavier de Pedro Puente, Ph.D. xavier.depedro (a) seeds4c.org
Academics:
Degree in Biology (UB[2]
)
Ph.D. in Ecology (UB
[3]
)
Postgraduate in Bioinformatics (UOC
[4]
)
Current Work:
Senior technician at Municipal Data Office (OMD
[5]
, Barcelona City Council
[6]
)
Past (related) Work:
Bioinformatics technician (UEB[7]
, VHIR[8]
)
Systems administrator (UEB[9]
, VHIR[10]
)
Disclaimer The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily
represent the views and policies of the Barcelona City Council. Any mention of trade names, products or
services does not imply an endorsement by the Barcelona City Council unless explicitly stated as such.

4. ==(2)BarcelonaCityCouncilCase==
2018: OMD - Municipal Data Office opened
[11]
(details
[12]
):
Management, quality, governance and use of data controlled and/or stored by
Barcelona City Council and all of its associated bodies (both public and private).
.
Public Statistics
[13]
portal
Recent product
[14]
: Covid-19 in BCN monitoring with an R Shiny App
[15]

5. BarcelonaCityCouncil:Publicmoney-
publiccode
Barcelona: first city to join the Free Software Foundation, Public Money, Public
Code
[16]
campaign
One of the case studies
[17]
of the use of open-source software and open code to
democratise cities.
There is a Government policy for open source and agile methodologies
[18]

7. BarcelonaCityCouncil:CityOS
City Council's infrastructure based on open-source Big Data technology
City OS: internal data management, known as "Data Lake"[19]
Video
[20]
Image from Francesca Bria
[21]
(Barcelona Digital City Roadmap 2017-2020)

8. BarcelonaCityCouncil:CityOSTechnologies
CityOS technologies: GNU/Linux, CentOS, Cloudera, Activiti, Talend, Protégé, R, Zabbix, Nagios, Ganglia
Source: https://github.com/AjuntamentdeBarcelona/CityOS_AjBCN
[22]
- Image from J. Berdonces a Github
[23]

9. BarcelonaCityCouncil:CityOS-
ClouderaManager
Cloudera with Hadoop File System, Hue, HBase, Hive, Impala, Oozie, Spark, Yarn, Kafka, ...
Source: https://github.com/AjuntamentdeBarcelona/CityOS_AjBCN
[24]
- Image from J. Berdonces a Github
[25]

10. ==(3)FromBaseRto"ModernR":
Tidyverse==
2000: First stable beta version (v1.0) released.
... "Base R" ...
2016: Tidyverse
[26]
1.0.0 package released on CRAN
[27]
2016: "Introduction to Modern R - r4stats.com"
[28]
2017: "Martin Hadley on R and the Modern R Ecosystem - InfoQ Podcasts"
[29]
2017: "Modern Data Science with R - Chapman & Hall/CRC"[30]
2019: "Modern R with the tidyverse - Econometrics and Free Software"
[31]
(blog)
2019: "Modern R and the Tidyverse - Data Science Workshops"[32]
2020: "Modern R: Welcome to the tidyverse"
[33]
(video tutorial)
2020: Statistical Inference via Data Science: ModernDive into R & Tidyverse"[34]

11. ModernR(Tidyverse)
Workflow, Packages, People/Community

12. Derived from here
[35]
& here
[36]

13. ModernR(Tidyverse)principles
Main structures are ordered data1.
Each variable is saved in its own column.
Each observation is saved in its own row.
Each "type" of observation stored in a single table
.Each function represents one step2.
Functions are combined with the pipe operator %>%3.
Each step is a query or command4.
Derived from here
[37]
, here
[38]
& here
[39]

14. ==(4)ModernR&BigData==
Data > RAM = Problem
From an RStudio seminar
[40]
by Garrett Grolemund
[41]

15. 3classesofBigDataProblems

16. From an RStudio seminar
[42]
by Garrett Grolemund
[43]

17. Rinteractswithothertechnologies
From an RStudio seminar
[44]
by Garrett Grolemund
[45]

18. RGeneralStrategy(i):Class1&2
From an RStudio seminar
[46]
by Garrett Grolemund
[47]

19. RGeneralStrategy(ii):Class1&2
From an RStudio seminar
[48]
by Garrett Grolemund
[49]

20. RGeneralStrategy(iii):Class3
From an RStudio seminar
[50]
by Garrett Grolemund
[51]

21. Class3-dbplyr
R - tidyverse - dplyr + dbplyr
From an RStudio seminar
[52]
by Garrett Grolemund
[53]

22. RGeneralStrategy(iv):Recap
From an RStudio seminar
[54]
by Garrett Grolemund
[55]

23. ==(5)Spark(Apache)&sparklyr(Rstudio)==
Spark
[56]
, from Apache Foundation
[57]
: a leading tool that is democratizing our
ability to process large datasets.
R Packages:
Apache introduced an interface for the R computing language: SparkR R
package
RStudio introduced sparklyr R package: a project merging R and Spark into
a powerful tool that is easily accessible to all.
But why where they introduced?
And why 2 different packages?
Derived from here
[58]
& here
[59]

24. Digitalinformationvsanaloginformation|World
Bank-2003
World Bank report: digital information surpassed analog information around
2003.
10 million terabytes of digital information (~ 10 million storage drives today)
our footprint of digital information is growing at exponential rates.
From "The R In Spark" (book)
[60]

25. GoogleFileSystem|Google-2003
Search engines were unable to store all of the web page information required to
support web searches in a single computer.
They had to split information into several files and store them across many
machines
This approach became known as "Google File System", due to a research
paper published in 2003 by Google.
From "The R In Spark" (book)
[61]

26. MapReduce|Google-2004
2004: Google published a new paper describing how to perform operations
across the Google File System:
approach called "MapReduce"
map operation: arbitrary way to transform each file into a new file
reduce operation: combines two files
Both operations require custom computer code, but the MapReduce
framework takes care of automatically executing them across many
computers at once.
Sufficient to process all the data available on the web, while providing
flexibility to extract meaningful information from it.
From "The R In Spark" (book)
[62]

27. HadoopDistributedFileSystem(HDFS)|Yahoo
-2006
A team at Yahoo implemented the Google File System and MapReduce as a
single open source project, released in 2006 as Hadoop
Google File System implemented as the Hadoop Distributed File System
(HDFS).
The Hadoop project made distributed file-based computing accessible to a wider
range of users and organizations, making MapReduce useful beyond web data
processing.
From "The R In Spark" (book)
[63]
| Image from De Apache Software Foundation, with Apache License 2.0
[64]

28. Hive|Facebook-2008
Hadoop provided support to perform MapReduce operations over a distributed
file system, but it still required MapReduce operations to be written with code
every time a data analysis was run
Hive project (2008, by Facebook) brought Structured Query Language (SQL)
support to Hadoop.
Data analysis could now be performed at large scale without the need to
write code for each MapReduce operation
From "The R In Spark" (book)
[65]
| Image from Davod
[66]
with Apache License 2.0
[67]

29. Spark(closedsourced)|UCBerkely-2009
In 2009, Spark began as a research project at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab to improve
on MapReduce.
Spark provided a richer set of verbs beyond MapReduce to facilitate
optimizing code running in multiple machines.
Spark also loaded data in-memory, making operations much faster than
Hadoop’s on-disk storage.
From "The R In Spark" (book)
[68]

30. Spark:In-memoryandon-disk
Spark: well known for its in-memory performance, but designed to be a general
execution engine that works both in-memory and on-disk
For instance, Spark has set sorting, for which data was not loaded in-
memory, but using improvements in network serialization, network shuffling,
and efficient use of the CPU’s cache to dramatically enhance performance.
If you needed to sort large amounts of data, there was no other system in the
world faster than Spark.
From "The R In Spark" (book)
[69]

31. Spark:fasterandeasier
Spark is much faster, more efficient, and easier to use than Hadoop.
Speed Example:
Without Spark: it takes 72 minutes and 2,100 computers to sort 100
terabytes of data using Hadoop,
With Spark: only 23 minutes and 206 computers
Simplicity example: word-counting MapReduce example takes:
about 50 lines of code in Hadoop, but
only 2 lines of code in Spark.
Hadoop Record Spark Record
Data Size 102.5 TB 100 TB
Elapsed Time 72 mins 23 mins
Nodes 2100 206

32. Cores 50400 6592
Disk 3150 GB/s 618 GB/s
Network 10Gbps 10Gbps
Sort rate 1.42 TB/min 4.27 TB/min
Sort rate / node 0.67 GB/min 20.7 GB/min
From "The R In Spark" (book)[70]

33. Spark(opensourced)-2010|Apache
Foundation-2013
2010: open sourced. 2013: donated to the Apache Software Foundation
Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Unified: supports many libraries, cluster technologies, and storage systems.
Analytics: discovery & interpretation of data to communicate information
Engine: expected to be efficient and generic.
Large-Scale: as cluster-scale (set of connected computers working together).
From "The R In Spark" (book)
[71]
| Image from the Apache Software Foundation, with Apache License 2.0
[72]

34. SparkR(BaseR)vs.sparklyr(ModernR)
Feature SparkR sparklyr
Data input & output + + + +
Data manipulation - + + +
Documentation + + + +
Ease of setup + + + +
Function naming - - + + +
Installation + + +
Machine learning + + +

35. Range of functions + + + + +
Running arbitrary code + + +
Tidyverse compatability - - - + + +
From https://www.eddjberry.com/post/2017-12-05-sparkr-vs-sparklyr/
[73]

36. Sparklyr|RStudio
Sparklyr, from Rstudio: https://spark.rstudio.com/
[74]
R interface for Apache Spark, agnostic to Spark versions,
2016: 1st version released (v0.4)
Easy to install, serving the R community,
Embracing other packages & practices from the R community (tidyverse, ...)
Designed for: New Users, Data Scientists, and Expert Users
Image from here
[75]

37. Summary:BigDatawithModernR&Spark
Big Data with Modern R & Spark in context
Image from here
[76]

38. SpeedingupSparkviaRwithApacheArrow
Apache Arrow
[77]
is a cross-language development platform for in-memory data, you can read more about this in
the Arrow and beyond[78]
blog post. In sparklyr 1.0, we are embracing Arrow as an efficient bridge between R
and Spark, conceptually.
X Axis: Time to complete task (left-hand-side is faster)
Y Axis: Top section: WITHOUT Apache Arrow), Bottom section: WITH apache Arrow.
Copying: Collecting: Transforming
From: https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/01/25/r-spark-improvements/
[79]

39. ==(6)Addendum:Diskframeaspotential
alernativeformediumsizedprojects?==
disk.frame package
[80]
, answer to: how do I manipulate structured tabular data
that doesn’t fit into Random Access Memory (RAM)?.
It makes use of two simple ideas
split up a larger-than-RAM dataset into chunks and store1.
each chunk in a separate file inside a folder and
provide a convenient API to manipulate these chunks2.
It performs a similar role to distributed systems such as Apache Spark, Python’s
Dask, and Julia’s JuliaDB.jl for medium data which are datasets that are too large
for RAM but not quite large enough to qualify as big data.
More information: here
[81]
and here
[82]

40. References
TheRinSpark Book: https://therinspark.com/
[83]
Cheatsheets at https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/
[84]
And some in Spanish Cheatsheets URL
[85]
> Spanish Translations –
Traducciones en español
Playground for R & Spark (for free): https://community.cloud.databricks.com/
[86]
Pricing
[87]
Rstudio Cloud (with free plan): https://rstudio.cloud
[88]
Webinars & scripts for hands-on practising:
https://rstudio.com/collections/working-with-spark/[89]
https://gitlab.com/radup/curs-r-introduccio/blob/master/codi/extra.tips.bigdat
a.R[90]
https://diskframe.com/articles/intro-disk-frame.html[91]

41. Thanks
[92]
xavier.depedro (a) seeds4c.org
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